Articles tagged with: China
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Thursday, 7 Jun, 2012
Ian Bremmer is the founder and President of the Eurasia Group, a leading geopolitical risk advisory firm. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University and was the youngest national fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is an author of several books including, The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?, and The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall, which was selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 200...
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Diplomatic pressure on Syria has mounted this week, as countries around the world have announced the expulsion of Syrian diplomats in protest at the massacre close to the Syrian town of Houla last weekend, in the province of Homs.
More than one hundred people were killed in the attack, including 20 women and almost 50 children, according to reports in Western newspapers. A UN report said that many of the dead were shot at close range, with less than 20 of the total casualties killed by sh...
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Wednesday, 25 Apr, 2012
Today, Ankara and Beijing prefer to put their various differences to rest, and instead utilize their newly found economic and diplomatic might to advance their national interes...
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Tuesday, 17 Apr, 2012
Reuters's report on March 5 that a major Chinese ship insurer – China P&I Club – has decided to "halt indemnity coverage for tankers carrying Iranian oil" has led to an...
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Thursday, 5 Apr, 2012
The six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have emerged as influential regional and international actors over the past decade. Led by Qatar and the United Arab Emirat...
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Wednesday, 28 Mar, 2012
The exhibition opened explosively—literally—over a vast stretch of open land in Qatar.
The ominously titled Black Ceremony exploded in a progressive series of ten scenes...
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Thursday, 8 Mar, 2012
The crisis in Syria continues to be the focus of foreign governments who are anxious of the humanitarian situation, but doubtless also worried about the political fallout and d...
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Monday, 27 Feb, 2012
On Friday, some 70 foreign ministers and diplomats met in Tunis in the first meeting of the “Friends of Syria”, a coordinated international effort that is attempting to fin...
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Tuesday, 14 Feb, 2012
The United Nations and its individual members have adopted a series of increasingly severe economic and other sanctions aimed at impeding Tehran’s ability...
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Monday, 23 Jan, 2012
The Arab league convened on Sunday in Cairo in order to deliberate over the future of the organization’s mission to Syria. Despite the fact that the 22-member organization’...
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